Ridgway.] 94 [May 21, 



longitudinial stripes only on the flanks. Above, gray- 

 ish brown, varying to rufous-brown (the back always 

 more ashy) the wings with white spotting. Wing 

 4.00-4-60; tail, 3.00-3.25; culmen, .50; tarsus, .70; 

 middle toe, .70. Hab. Chile. (Straits of Magellan 

 and Peru, Kaup.) 

 B. Nostril opening in the anterior edge of the inflated cere (Micro- 

 glaux Kaup). 



8. G. suu. Crown with diamond-shaped, rather longi- 

 tudinal, dots of lighter. Nuchal collar rufous, in 

 abrupt contrast. Tail dark brown, crossed by 

 6-7 continuous narrow bands of reddish white, less 

 than half as wide as the brown. Markings on the 

 sides in form of transverse spots, but arranged in lon- 

 gitudinal series. Above, grayish umber, with trans- 

 verse, partly concesled, spots of ochraceous or white. 

 Wing, 3.50-4.00; tail, 2.30-2.60; culmen, .40-.50 ; 

 tarsus, .62-70; middle toe, .62-.75. Hab. Cuba. 



1. Glaucidium passerinum var. californicum. 1 



Glaucidium californicum Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc, Lond., 1857, 



p. 4. 

 Glaucidium passerinum var. californicum Bidgway, Coues, Key, 1872, 



206. 

 Strix passerinoides (not of Temininek !) Aud., Orn. Biog. v, 271, 



1831. 

 Glaucidium infuscatum (not of Temm. !) Cass., Birds of Cal. and 



Tex., p. 189, 1854. Newb., P. R. R. Kept, vi, iv, 77, 1857. 

 Glaucidium gnoma (not of Wagler!), Cass., Birds N. Am. 1858, 62. 



Heerm., P. R. R. Rept. vn, 31, 1857.— Coop, and Suck., P. 



1 Glaucidium passerinum. var. passerinum Linnasus. 

 Strix passerina Linn., S. N. I, 1766, 133. 

 Glaucidium passerinum Boie, Isis, 1826, 976. — Sharpe and Dresser, B. Europe, II, 



April, 1871. 

 Surnia passerinum Keys and Bias., "Wurb. Eur. 1840, 32. 

 Microptynx passerinum Kaup, Contr. Orn. 1852, 107. 

 Noctua passerinum Sclileg., Mus. Pays-Bas. Striges, p. 41, 1862. 

 Strix pusilla Daud., Tr. Orn. n, 1800, 205. 

 Strix pygmcea Beclist., Nat. Deutschl. iv, 978, t. xxiv, 1805. 

 Strix acadica Temm., Man. d'Orn. i, 1820, 96 (not Strix Acadica of Gmelin!) 



List of specimens examined. Nat. Mus., 1; Philad. Acad., 3: N. Y. Mus., 1. 

 Total, 5. 



